I recently purchased a Hauppauge - WinTV-PVR-150 PCI Video Capture Card [BTC] and I would like to know what firmware and/or drivers are needed to get it to work on my computer (the operating system that I use is Vector Linux 7.0)? I have downloaded what I think is the correct firmware for it (in the form of a .tar.gz file), but every time I try to extract the files using xarchiver, I get the following error message -

If I remember correctly, yes it does. So does anyone out there know where I can find uncorrupted ivtv driver and/or firmware files (I tried Googleing them which is how I found the ones I have, which, as I said, are all corrupted)?

I am flying blind here. I don't use a TV card because I use Hulu Desktop instead (the free version) to watch TV from my computer. I run it in everything from Puppy Linux to AntiX. Miro is another I use.

First:Start xarchiver, from the menu select Action > Preferences > Archive and check the "Store archiver output" box, then click OK.If you try decompressing the file again, you'll see what "tar" has to say about it. And that won't help you, because ---

THE FILE HAS BEEN COMPRESSED TWICE!

No wonder you've been having trouble, and everyone's been scratching their heads. It's probably the result of gzipping a zip or zipping a tgz.

Copy the file to a fresh, empty directory. Open a terminal there. You'll have to decompress manually:

As to the question you actually asked, see if /usr/src/linux-3.0.8/include/linux/videodev2.h is there. A search on "ivtv videodev2" turns up lots of answers on how to deal with this if you still want to go ahead and build. I like exactly 0 of those answers.

I'm pretty sure that you should not compile and install the drivers. If you have the ones I think you do, they are older than what's already in the kernel.

Not sure about the firmware: info on that disappeared in the transition from the ivtv site to the videoforlinux site.

First, you should use something besides TVTime to try viewing. A few people have gotten just a few Hauppauge cards to work with it, but the majority won't. You might try VLC as a test for the basic operation of the card. Simple searches should turn up instructions. I'd try first without installing the firmware to /lib/firmware/ .If you do copy the firmware over to there, use 'cp -vn' to avoid overwriting presumably newer files and note what's actually copied so you can remove it if it interferes.